BOCA RATON, FL - The history of domain name can have a decisively significant factor in terms of its Google ranking. If a user owns a domain that is new and has never been used before then they essentially have a clean slate, but if the domain name was previously owned and has changed hands – perhaps even more than once – how it was utilized by its previous owner and/or owners could absolutely have an impact on your ranking going forward. Most people don't pay much … [Read more...]
From LinkedIn Spaces to Real Faces at The South Florida Domainers Meetup in Fort Lauderdale
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the South Florida Domainers meetup which took place in Fort Lauderdale, at the Sistrunk Marketplace & Brewery, an interesting place in the heart of South Florida with a large variety of beers and international cuisine to experience. As you may have read about it in DNJournal.com, the local shindig was mainly orchestrated by Eddie Sixto with some help by other industry veterans, some of which I met for the … [Read more...]
Murder.net Gets A New Cover for “Explicit Content, Reader Reviews,” #Creepy
PALM BEACH, FL – Back in January of this year, I released “Murder.net - Countdown to The Next Nightmare: The First Fiction Horror Story Based Entirely On An Internet Domain Name.” What started out as just a way to make a cool domain name, well - a little cooler, is being improved upon for retail sale as I finally get around to the grueling marketing process which includes production in multiple formats (Print), (Kindle) (Audio-book) and sending copies out to review … [Read more...]
What Does Google’s New BERT Update Do? Most Significant Update In Last Five Years
PALM BEACH, FL - Google’s BERT update (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) effects up to 10% of search queries by allowing Google to better understand natural language processing (NLP), for the most part, in longer tail keyword searches. It is something Google has been working on for the last few years and allows Google to use particular words within a search query that change or transform the intent of the search. It is said by Google to be one of … [Read more...]
How Google Search Worked (Back in 2010) With Quality Search Engineer Matt Cutts
PALM BEACH, FL – The below video was uploaded by Google’s YouTube account back in 2010. As of the time of this writing the video has been watched over 5.2 million times. It explains, in layman’s terms (a very simple way), how Google works, at least, how Google ‘worked’ back in 2010. The video includes Matt Cutts, who was at that time, Google’s quality search engineer. He also acted as somewhat of a communications contact between Google and the entire webmaster community. … [Read more...]
Gobble, Gobble: Google Wants To Steal Your Website’s Local Event Calendar Traffic Too
PALM BEACH, FL – No, its not quite Thanksgiving yet; there are still several weeks to go. I wasn’t referring to [that] type of “Gobble, Gobble”, with a turkey or thanksgiving or any of that. But Gobble, Gobble seems to fit the bill. Because if you were to ask Google, every day is like a feeding frenzy. I’m talking about Google’s insatiable appetite to steal all of your content so that there is little traffic left for you. In fact, I bet Google would much prefer if your … [Read more...]
Google Says: “Always Be Link Building”
PALM BEACH, NY – If that little-soft-wet melon in your head is working properly, you're very likely - not going to get much benefit out of this piece.... but in case you’ve never thought of this before, it could be quite compelling and helpful. It also could serve its purpose well if there is someone you have been trying to "convince", but they are that type of thick-headed person that doesn’t trust your intuition when it comes to SEO and always needs to hear it from the … [Read more...]
Top 10 Ways to Market Your Small Business Online; Do-It-Yourself Marketing Strategies
WEST PALM BEACH - Every once in a while I'll come out with a list of goodies for those who look for website owner tips. Below is a list of these including the top ten best and/or most popular ways (in my opinion) to market your small business on the Internet including both do-it-yourself strategies and for those which aren't, reasons why you might be better off hiring a fully managed solution provider or Internet marketing company to do it for you. Some of these ideas you … [Read more...]